Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.102, an open-source Windows utility pack, adding two mouse tools, new command-line tools and Command Palette improvements. This is product news with no vulnerability, exploitation or threat activity described. Mouse Button Lock keeps a mouse button treated as held until the next click, which helps with d…
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) announced on October 20, 2026 that it is replacing the multiple report quality levels in its bug bounty programs with two assessments: "Complete" and "Not Complete". The rules apply to reports submitted on or after October 20, 2026, 8 AM Pacific Time. Earlier submissions remain under the previous …
Microsoft has fixed a known issue in the classic Outlook desktop client for Windows that hid the Copilot Chat and Copilot buttons for users with a Copilot Chat (Basic) or Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) license. Microsoft first announced a fix in June through a service change, but the bug resurfaced after recent updates and was investigat…
Microsoft has fixed a known issue in which games and Windows 11 apps using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding crashed after the September 2026 optional preview update KB5124010. The fix is included in the October 2026 Patch Tuesday update KB5127648, which Microsoft advises installing on affected systems running Windows 11 24H2 and later.…
ZDNET's Jack Wallen reviews GridCraft, a free, open-source, Rust-based spreadsheet application from ArtCraft that mimics Microsoft Excel. It runs natively on Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows and supports XLSX files, more than 500 functions, charts and pivot tables. The reviewer notes weak template support, with no .xltx saving, and advis…
Huntress announced Attack Reduction, a new capability in Huntress Managed ESPM (Early Access) that disables the "Windows key + R" shortcut for users who never use the Run dialog, aiming to break the most common ClickFix attack chain. The post opens with an attempted fake-CAPTCHA lure that targeted a Huntress employee on a spoofed airport …
Huntress announced the Identity Posture Assessment, an on-demand report in Huntress Managed ISPM that scores a Microsoft 365 tenant against the Huntress Identity Security Framework. This is a product announcement, not a security incident. Huntress cites its own data: 79% of critical and high-severity SOC incident reports last year were ti…
Huntress announced general availability of the Managed ITDR Lookback feature. It reviews up to 180 days of Microsoft 365 login history for newly onboarded tenants, looking for compromises that predate monitoring. Active compromises trigger a critical Incident Report, SOC investigation and session revocation. Previously remediated ones are…
Microsoft announced that quick machine recovery (QMR) is now available on Windows Server 2025 after installing the October 2026 security update. The feature lets IT administrators fix critical boot failures through targeted Windows Update remediations, without physical access to affected systems. QMR was introduced in November 2024 under …
Trend Micro published its 2024 Cyber Risk Report, based on telemetry from the Trend Vision One Cyber Risk Exposure Management platform. The average Cyber Risk Index (CRI) was 38.4 for the year, down 6.2 points from 2023, and stayed in the Medium Risk zone (31-69). Trend attributes the decline to organizations adopting proactive, risk-base…
Tenable announced that Tenable One Cloud Exposure now brings Microsoft Entra Agent ID agentic AI identities into its unified asset and identity inventory. The post argues that treating AI agents as ordinary non-human identities (NHIs) is risky, because agents make non-deterministic, runtime decisions through LLMs, which makes baselining t…
ServiceNow and Nvidia announced general availability of Arc, a long-running personal AI agent for enterprise productivity tasks such as email and Microsoft Teams. Arc was first announced in May and is available now on Mac, with Windows support still pending. It is designed for Nvidia's new RTX Spark devices and can run locally or inside N…
Sekoia announced an integration between Zimperium Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) and the Sekoia autonomous SOC platform. It brings mobile threat telemetry into a single environment for detection, investigation and threat hunting. The post is vendor product content, not a new incident or vulnerability. It argues that mobile devices are now a …
A Sekoia blog post discusses the Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) category, drawing on the March 2026 Gartner Market Overview. It describes ISOC as a delivery model in which the vendor supplies SIEM, endpoint detection, threat intelligence, AI-assisted SOC capabilities, content and workflows as one integrated system, rather th…
A Huntress thought-leadership post sets out five priorities for security leaders in 2026: abuse of trusted IT tools, AI-enabled cybercrime, social engineering, multi-extortion ransomware and identity-based attacks including BEC. The article cites internal Huntress telemetry showing RMM abuse rising roughly 277% year over year, with Screen…
Huntress published a vendor blog post on the role and limits of Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) in modern data protection. It explains that VSS remains a core framework for application-consistent snapshots on Windows workloads but should not be treated as a complete recovery or ransomware defense. The article warns that modern …
ESET WeLiveSecurity warns that scammers are exploiting demand for Robux, the virtual currency of Roblox, to steal credentials, personal information and money, with children and younger players the main targets. Roblox states that no legitimate free Robux generators, tricks or codes exist. Only earned routes are legitimate, such as officia…
Microsoft announced changes to its Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, Premium and Pro subscriptions, replacing per-member 1 TB OneDrive allowances with a single shared storage pool and shared AI usage credits. Family and Premium plans drop from up to 6 TB of total storage to 2 TB, and the new Microsoft 365 Pro plan offers 5 TB at about $100 …
Marvell, Microsoft and Oracle are collaborating to standardize a NIST FIPS 140-3 Level 3 integrated hardware security module (HSM) for cloud and hyperscale data center infrastructure. The article, which is only a short teaser, describes an industry standardization effort rather than a threat, vulnerability or incident. No CVEs, threat act…
Volexity published Part 3 of its "Mind the (Patch) Gap" series. It shows how Volexity Volcano and Surge Collect Pro were used to analyze a VM compromised with the zero-day exploit chain and payloads used by UTA0560 (Chrome and Windows zero-days, described in Part 1). The post is mainly product and workflow documentation rather than new in…